Brief
about Rajkot District
There are total 8 districts in Saurashtra
region of Gujarat State. Among of them,
Rajkot district constituted from the
central region of Saurashtra. It is
Located at 20.57 north latitude to 23.07
east latitude and between 70.20 east
longitude to 71.40 north longitude.
On the north of the Saurastra there
is huge Rann of Kutchh, on the east
side Bhavnagar & Surendranagar districts
located, on the south of the Saurastra
Junagadh & Amreli districts located
and on the west of the region Jamnagar
district is situated...

History
As mentioned in poet Mr.Narsinh Mehta’s
poem that kathiawad be a land of god,
holy saints, which is importantly a
part of Mahatma Gandhi’s nation, is
a famous place for the king of the jungle
as well in Gir throughout asia, whose
giant roar brings a thrill to anyone
who listens to it.

Rajkot city was founded by Thakorji
Vibhaji in the year of 1610 and he ruled
about 282 square miles area with 64
villages throughout. In 1720 the deputy
subehdar Masum Khan belonging to Sorath
regiment defeated the ruler and the
name of Rajkot was changed to Masumabad.
After that in the year of 1732 the son
of the deafeated ruler Meramanji took
the revenge of his father’s defeat by
defeating Masum Khan again and kept
its name Rajkot again

In the year of 1822 the British rule
established an agency and kept its name
Kathiawad agency. The present Kothi
area which houses the customs and railway
offices used to house the officials
of that british agency during that period.
During various changes there was a change
in the leadership and again the whole
area belonged to the agency which is
at present the Sadar area

Rajkot was linked with Wankaner through
railways in the year 1889. In 1893 rail
link was established between Rajkot
and Jetalsar. During that time mostly
meter gauge trains were used and which
formed the main lifeline of the transport
within the areas.

Due to meet the water needs of the Rajkot
city which is built on the shore of
the river Aaji a new lake called Lalpari
was established in the year of 1895.

In 1921 the political leadership of
the Kathiawad first met in Rajkot. And
during this time Lakhaji Raj represented
the first meet and established the first
settlement of the political leadership
in the area.

In 1925 Mahatma Gandhi for the first
time visited the city and thereby established
the first educational activities. Today
it is a well established centre for
rural industries.

In 1937 Vadhera started a wide agitation
again the atrocities of Diwan Viravada
and thereby started the first satyagrah.
And this was finally resolved by Sardar
Vallabh bhai Patel. This resolution
was finally let down at a later stage
and with this development Mahatma Gandhi
started the hunger strike to denounce
this move. 1942 quit India movement
was also a major contributor for Rajkot
to become a major hub for the developments
as well.